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by Tom Gally | |
Working on a book introduction about
Japanese onomatopoeia and mimesis, I did a Google search for adverbs
used with the verb 笑う. Below is a list, taken from the first several
hundred Google hits, of adverbs that preceded the string と笑った and their
hit counts.Most of these adverbs appear on the Web in both hiragana and katakana; these hit counts are for only the hiragana versions. (The count for ニッコリと笑った, for example, was 3,330.) にっこりと笑った 16,700At least one of the fairly frequently used adverbs--にかっと--doesn't seem to be in any dictionaries that I checked, including several 擬音語・擬態語 references. (February 24, 2003)
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